The spring 2011 40 Days for Life campaign has now entered its 34th day, and with just a week left to go, stories of the incredible fruits of the international pro-life initiative are pouring in.
The 40 Days for Life website displays a ticker in the top-right hand corner that is regularly updated to show the number of babies that have been saved from abortion during the current campaign. As Shawn Carney, the board treasurer for 40 Days for Life reported on Monday, April 11, that number has climbed to 346 in the past four and a half weeks. (read more) (link to 40 Days for Life website) Planned Parenthood may have won the first leg of the race on Thursday when members of the Senate defeated a House-passed measure to yank taxpayer funds from the abortion business. But pro-life groups vow there are still miles to go.
The battle for leading groups and lawmakers is important because, no matter how hard the abortion business tries to hide the main sources of its income and the main mission it has, as Rep. Jean Schmidt, an Ohio Republican, told her colleagues yesterday, “For every 33 pregnant women who walk into a Planned Parenthood, 32 receive an abortion.” (read more) The House of Representatives voted Thursday for the Continuing Resolution funding the federal government that contains a ban on abortion funding in the nation’s capital. House lawmakers also supported efforts to de-fund Planned Parenthood, but senators voted no. After the House voted, members of the Senate voted 58-42 against the resolution to de-fund Planned Parenthood. The vote was mostly partisan — with Republicans supporting de-funding and Democrats voting no — though pro-abortion Republicans Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Mark Kirk of Illinois, and Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine voted no as well.
(read more) On a 240-185 vote today, with all Republicans supporting and all but three Democrats in opposition, the House of Representatives voted to strip the Obamacare health care law of its federal funding.
The Senate voted immediately afterwards 53-47, on a party-line vote, and defeated the Obamacare de-funding measure. However, the House vote is an indication of the way Americans strongly oppose the Obamacare law, which contains loopholes allowing federal taxpayer funding of abortion and presents rationing concerns for pro-life groups. (read more) Americans United for Life (AUL) reported Monday that only days after cutting a budget deal that saved Planned Parenthood’s funding in the budget bill, Senate leaders have scheduled a vote on Thursday to consider legislation by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) to defund the organization; that legislation has already passed the House of Representatives.
Additionally, the Senate is expected to hold a vote Thursday on whether to fund the abortion-expanding health care reform law: another major concession won by Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) amid budget negotiations Friday night. (read full article) WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, April 12, and Wednesday, April 13, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives will conduct votes on a major pro-life bill -- the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 3).
National Right to Life urges you to promptly telephone the office of your representative in the U.S. House, to urge him or her to vote against all amendments to H.R. 3, and to vote in favor of passing the bill. (read more) Thus far in the current 40 Days for Life campaign, there have been 253 babies saved from abortion — that we know of! It’s the “that we know of” part that gives me the greatest hope. Who knows but the Lord Himself how many lives have been saved because Planned Parenthood can’t find an abortionistin Columbia, Missouri, where a 40 Days for Life vigil is going on? Abortions have not taken place there since January!A couple had been struggling with their decision regarding their unplanned pregnancy, and after discussing it for a few weeks had decided to have the abortion.
“They actually walked past the abortion center at first because they didn’t know exactly where it was,” said Patti. But because of that, they also walked past the four people who were praying outside as part of the 40 Days for Life vigil. They eventually found the entrance and went it. But they walked out a short time later and had a message for the people praying: “We didn’t do it!” They said the sight of people praying was the sign they were looking for to help them decide to keep their baby. read more Myths about Planned Parenthood are spreading like grassfire. Thanks to a perfect storm of events, the abortion provider is scrambling to cauterize the biggest PR hit it has ever sustained. November’s election of an overwhelmingly pro-life Congress, revelation of numerous violations by its staff and repeated calls for its defunding by social and fiscal conservatives alike have put Planned Parenthood’s lifeblood on the line.
Planned Parenthood’s bottom line is numbers. And, with abortion as its primary money-maker, that means implementing a quota. I know this is true because I worked at one of their Texas clinics for 8 years, two as the clinic director. read more |
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